Hold up. We haven’t seen or heard anything from those guys for 3 days. What’s going on damn it!

It’s ok. Don’t panic. We are back. Booked ourselves into a hostel with WiFi…but not in the rooms. Filthy tricksters.

So what have we been up to. Well for starters we are now in a new location with Thailand. We are in the southern province of Krabi. Krabi Town to be exact. When the tide is out the beach is covered in different types of crab. Some our tiny, some are huge. Some look a little like me after a session in the gym with one huge right arm and a tiny left one.

We said our goodbyes to Bangkok by visiting the 8 floor shopping centre not far from the station. It’s pretty much like the night markets you see all over Thailand, just indoors. Still it’s set out like a normal shopping centre or mall (can only be said in an American accent) but with the added advantage of being able to haggle your way to a bargain. Plus everything is bloody cheap anyway.

There is a technology floor where you can bag yourself a brand new smartphone for a fraction of the price you’d pay in the UK. Soph managed to get her smashed phone screen fixed for next to nothing. We waited half hour and it was done. Better than before. Anyone offering those prices in England and you would run a mile. Too good to be true. Not here though. Almost nothing is too good to be true. Apart from Tuk Tuk drivers. Oh and Ladyboys. Watch out for them….apparently…

So that night we jumped on another sleeper train to the south. It was better than our horrific no air con experience back from Chiang Mai. But it still wasn’t as nice as our first train up North. We got through it in one piece though, and actually it is relatively comfortable. Just as long as you don’t have a bunch of pricks shouting at the train guard all night because we were running 30 minutes late.

Once at our station we had to get a bus to Krabi. A bus that must have gone via Bangkok. It took forever. But after stopping at every station in the whole of Thailand we managed to arrive.

Then it was the turn of the taxi driver. We showed him the  address of our hostel and he set off to take us there. But after  a short drive around the town we stopped outside hostel that was clearly not ours. Seeming a little lost he decided then to call the number on our confirmation to get the exact address. Good idea.

All set he then drove a little more around the town before stopping again outside another hostel. Again, not ours. He was adamant that it was though. Sensing another classic Thai con, Soph stayed in the truck while the bemused driver and I went in to put a stop to the madness. All the staff pointed down the road in the direction we’d just came when I showed then the address. So again we jumped back in the truck and headed off. A couple of right turns later we arrived. Finally. At least we got our money’s worth for the trip.

However we have noticed today that in fact our hostel is pretty much next door to where he picked us up from in the first place. I could fall over and have passed the place, it’s that close. So we are not sure whether the driver literally had no idea, or whether perhaps, and more likely, we’d been conned again. Brilliant.

Last night we had walk through the Krabi Town. Checking out the over elaborate traffic lights and ice cream parlour. At the night market and bumped into a nice American man who has been living in near by Ao Nang for 3 years. He was telling us about how nice it is there and how the beaches are amazing. So we will probably head there tomorrow now. He was very nice.

He actually starting telling us about his girlfriend and how amazing she is. How God had blessed him with the perfect woman as he looked up at the heavens and made a cross shape across his body with his hands. I was about to say how long have the two of you been together when a sharp ‘NO’ came from Soph’s mouth. Half whispered. I ignored it thinking I had miss heard, when it came again. I soon realised that those signs of the cross and look upward when talking about his girlfriend were not thanking God for his girlfriend. In fact it seemed his girlfriend had died and I had got the wrong end of the stick.

So thinking quickly I rephrased my comment. Phew. I felt pretty awful as I wasn’t sure if I’d got away with it. But then as we sat chatting for a while longer. Along came a woman to sit next to him. His bloody girlfriend! All that for nothing. It was a real emotional rollercoaster. She looked alright for a dead woman to be fair.

We have now settled in but only for a couple of nights. Although by the water, there is no real beach here. So we head to Ao Nang tomorrow for some sun, sea and sand. Although it is literally monsoon weather outside from about 2 in the afternoon. So we’d have to be quick about it.

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